Recent content by mbacardi

I finally got it to work by using my old computer and followed the steps above. Phone took about 1/2 hour to restart. After I set it back up it updated over the air and now has Android 10 with July 1, 2020 patch and 2.1 UI installed. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! and sorry for a million posts/questions!

Okay I tried my old lap top and followed same instructions as above. Odin said "pass!" Phone has the blue screen with droid figure and says installing system update. It has been about 10 minutes. Do i leave the USB cod in the phone and leave it connected to computer? About how long should it take?

Hey I just saw a post of your from April 2020 where you helped someone flash their firmware and it sounds like they were having a similar problem as me. You you told them to hit the reboot bootloader tab in odin before hitting start. Here is a screen shot. I also have another question. With...

okay I just tried again after i disabled windows firewall, antivirus and malwarebytes. It failed again. Odin recognized my phone. On the first try it seemed to just sit there for long time then I got the failure message. 2nd try it told me "complete(write) operation failed". I have tried all 3...

I will try to disable the security (windows 10 and running windows defender and Malwarebytes). Odin seems to recognize my phone and process starts, so this sounds like it could be my problem. Before I posted I went to Best Buy to see the Samsung rep. They said Samsung staff were pulled from...

This time I got a "Can't open the serial (COM) port. Is this it not liking the USB port?

I did make a back up. Is it better to use the csc_omc_oyn in the CSC slot since we are trying to get rid of the old Sprint firmware?

I thought you said above in your instructions to use Home CSC file to save data? Should I be using CSC_OMC_OYN? I took a screen shot after it failed and took phone off of computer

I got Odin to recognize my phone. It got a fail and it says Complete(Write) operation failed. I did some searching and a suggestin was to have USB debugging turned on in developer options. Should I do that and try again?

Di take the SIM card out before flashing?

Okay i hit download ROm and did not pick "Download Combination" In addition to making sure the phone is in download mode, do I have to sign out of google or samsung accounts before I begin the process?

On the firmware you said select TMB or SPRT, I see TMB as well as several others. I picked TMB I also see the update button but it asks if I want to click "Binary Nature" for "Download Full Firmware including Pit File. Do i check this box?

Okay I was able to finally figure out an download odin. i downloaded version 3.14.1, however, I did see there was a version 3.14.4, should I have downloaded that instead? I also downloaded samfim v0.4.1 zip file and the 7zip tool. However I have not used 7zip before and seem stumped at this...

That would be great! Can I get back to you tomorrow to start? I just want to hear back from the person I bought the phone from before I make any major change.

That would be great, my only concern is I assume there is a chance I could "brick it" and then not be able to return it, or would I be able to just do a factory rest and then ship it back if it does not work? Sorry if a dumb question.